864 RHQPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



on abdominal fold, the innermost being more more or less — mostly bo in female — greenish. Wings beneath 

 with the ground colour purplish -brown, mottled with darker patches ; anterior wraps with the spots as above ; 

 posterior wings with two additional and contiguous pale green spots at base, spots generally more obscure 

 than above, a large greyish-white spot near eosta inwardly margined with a black and red spot, a black 

 and red spot close to the upper discal green spot, the lower diseal spot with a black centre, the marginal 

 spots more or less margined with blackish, a small whitish fringe*Like spot above anal angle preceded by a 

 reddish spot bordered with greyish and black ; abdominal fold dark greyish, sometimes more or less greenish. 

 Body above brownish, with a broad central black fascia, which is margined with greenish on pronotuin 

 and with greyish on abdomen ; inner margin of eyes greyish ; body beneath greyish ; legs streaked with 

 dark fuscous, 



Exp. wings, t? and ? ( to 95 millim. 



Hab,— Continental India; Silhet, Dnkhun (Horsf, & Moore); Darjeeling (eolh Diat). — Ceylon 

 (Moore). — Andaman Islands ; Port Blair (Wood-Mas. and de Nic.)* — Nieobar Islands ; Kamorta (Moore). — 

 Burma; Moulmein (Sloore). — Tonasserim; Meetan, Hatsiega, Honngduran Source (Limborg— Moore).— 

 Malay Peninsula ; Penang, Province Wellesley (coll Diat.) ; Perak (Kiinet, — Calc. Mus.) ; Malacca (Pinwill 

 —Brit* Mns.), — Siam ; Chentahoon (Druce). — Nias Island (Kheil). — Sumatra (Forbes — coll. Diet.), — Java 

 (Horsf. & Moore) ; Batavia (Snellen) —Borneo (VolL) ; Elodina (Pry er— coll. Diet.) ; Bangermasin (coll. 

 Diat.)* — Philippines (Semper). — Celebes (SnelLJ. — Amboba (Toll,)* — Cochin China (Oberth.). 



The larva and pupa of this species liave been figured by Horsfield,* and the larva in Java 

 is stated to feed on the same plant as I\ antiphate&.\ The larva and papa are also figured from 

 drawings made by the Bros, de Alwis in Moore's 1 Lepidoptera of Ceylon/ \ and the larva 

 in Ceylon is said to feed on Magnoliacm and Anonacea;, and also— on the authority of 

 Mr. Mack wood — on " Soiusop and Cinnamon/' § whilst both in Batavia and South- West 

 Celebes M. C. Piepers found it M feeding on the leaves of Anona muricala> Linn., a plant 

 introduced from the West Indies/' || 



This species is of a varietal nature, and several local races appeaT to have a moderately 

 distinct facies. Thus the length of the caudate appendages to the posterior wings is longer 

 in specimens found in Continental India than in the Malay Peninsula, whilst Celebesian 

 examples can easily bo recognised by their generally larger size and smaller spots. 1F 



* Cat. Lep. Mus. E, I.C. voL i. i 111, f. 9, 6a. t Aniea, p. 859. I T. 63, f. % 2 a, % Ibid. p. 145. 



I| Tijd. Ent. six. pp. xviii to xsiv, and English translation by Kirby t 1 Entomologist,' p. 272* 



Frit/. Mtilk-r hnH recently jriven some interesting facta as to the botanical discriminatfon of butterflies. Writing from 

 Santa CatharLna, Brazil, he remarks: — ' l Tho caterpillars of Machaniti*, Direenna, Ccratinia, and fthomia food on different 

 Hueciefc of Soltinacac (Solanum, Cypliomandrtij Bassonia, Cestnmi)* those of the allied genera Thyridia on Brtmfol&ia, Now 

 thin latter genua of plants had been placed unanimously among the Scnfpktdarince:, till qtiito recently it was transferred by 

 Bcnthiiin and Hooker to the Sdl'ttmn tv. Thus it appears that butterflies hud reco^nitied the true affinity of Brunfthia long 



hoFniv ln»tani.^ts did ho There is yet another and more curious instance <d mir butterflies confirming the arrangement 



of plants in Eentham and Hooker's 4 Genera Plnntarum.' Agerania and Didoftia wore formerly widely separated by 

 lepidop ierista, being even considered as constituting distinct families, but now tliey are to be found beside one another 

 among the Ny»i2>kdlin^B 1 and the structure of their caterpillars leaves no doubt about their close affinity. The caterpillars 

 of Afjcrcttna feed on D&lccli&mjtia, those of Didonit on Tragia. Now these two Euphorbiaoeons genera were widely 

 separated by fiudlicher, who placed the former among the iSupJinrbira;, the latter among the Acalijphete ; Bentham and 

 Hooker, on the contrary, place them close together in the same sub-tribe of Plukenttictr, and thus their close affinity, winch 

 had been duly appreciated by butterflies, has finally been recognised by botanists also." — {* Nature,' vol. ixs., p. 240*) 



1 Mr, "Wallace enumerates six loeal forms of this species tTrans. Linn. Sue, vol xxv., pp. 67-8 (1855), and Mon. 

 Oberthur has more recently described two under distinct varietal names <Et«des d'Eufc. Quatr, Livr. t p. 58 (1879)* 



